.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 218 158
Rank change year-on-year -126 -60 -42
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 307 751 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 1.23% 2.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.75% 6.05% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 282 524 925
10th Percentile £41,600 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £109,750 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,459 12,413 12,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.03% 20.38% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,737 7,448 10,397
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,200 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.54% +0.54%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +13 133 £80,000 +14.29% 128
North of England -56 71 £55,000 - 102
North West 0 44 £55,000 -4.35% 60
South East -85 40 £55,000 - 95
South West +19 27 £50,000 -20.00% 29
Yorkshire -41 21 £40,000 -20.00% 29
Midlands -36 18 £60,000 +32.60% 58
East of England -11 13 £60,000 +20.00% 34
West Midlands -2 11 £60,000 +33.33% 26
East Midlands -33 7 £60,000 +26.32% 31
North East -7 6 £70,000 +60.00% 13
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.89%) IIS
2 11 (3.58%) CMS
3 7 (2.28%) Confluence
3 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.63%) Umbraco
5 4 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.33%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.33%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 213 (69.38%) Azure
2 94 (30.62%) AWS
3 47 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (11.73%) Serverless
5 34 (11.07%) GitHub
6 21 (6.84%) Azure Functions
6 21 (6.84%) Power Platform
7 20 (6.51%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (5.54%) SaaS
9 15 (4.89%) GCP
10 14 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (4.23%) Power Automate
12 12 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (3.58%) Azure App Service
14 10 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.26%) Azure AKS
14 10 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (2.61%) PowerApps
16 6 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.95%) Internet
2 2 (0.65%) HTTP
2 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (36.16%) SQL Server
2 58 (18.89%) MongoDB
3 50 (16.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (8.79%) NoSQL
5 26 (8.47%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.23%) MySQL
8 12 (3.91%) Power BI
8 12 (3.91%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.26%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.93%) Redis
11 8 (2.61%) NonStop SQL
12 7 (2.28%) Data Hub
12 7 (2.28%) SQL CLR
12 7 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.30%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.33%) Event Store
15 1 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 54 (17.59%) Git
2 17 (5.54%) JIRA
3 12 (3.91%) Visual Studio
4 10 (3.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 9 (2.93%) GitLab
6 8 (2.61%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.63%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.63%) NUnit
8 5 (1.63%) Postman
9 4 (1.30%) MSTest
9 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (1.30%) Vite
10 3 (0.98%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
10 3 (0.98%) JMeter
10 3 (0.98%) Selenium
11 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 50 (16.29%) Finance
2 49 (15.96%) Social Skills
3 18 (5.86%) Retail
4 16 (5.21%) Law
5 15 (4.89%) Back Office
6 12 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.91%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.26%) Advertising
8 10 (3.26%) Legal
9 7 (2.28%) Banking
9 7 (2.28%) Front Office
10 5 (1.63%) Automotive
11 4 (1.30%) Marketing
11 4 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Games
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 216 (70.36%) Developer
2 119 (38.76%) .NET Developer
3 55 (17.92%) Senior
4 45 (14.66%) Full-Stack Developer
4 45 (14.66%) Software Developer
5 41 (13.36%) C# Developer
6 37 (12.05%) Senior Developer
7 33 (10.75%) Software Engineer
8 30 (9.77%) Lead
9 24 (7.82%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 21 (6.84%) .NET Software Engineer
11 18 (5.86%) Senior .NET Developer
12 17 (5.54%) Lead Developer
13 14 (4.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (4.56%) Senior C# Developer
14 13 (4.23%) C# .NET Developer
14 13 (4.23%) React Developer
15 11 (3.58%) C# Software Developer
16 10 (3.26%) Azure Developer
16 10 (3.26%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (100.00%) .NET
2 112 (36.48%) ASP.NET
3 104 (33.88%) React
4 103 (33.55%) AngularJS
5 96 (31.27%) .NET Framework
6 80 (26.06%) HTML
7 77 (25.08%) Entity Framework
7 77 (25.08%) RESTful
8 68 (22.15%) CSS
9 60 (19.54%) ASP.NET Web API
10 56 (18.24%) ASP.NET MVC
11 47 (15.31%) Vue
12 42 (13.68%) HTML5
13 37 (12.05%) Blazor
13 37 (12.05%) Node.js
14 28 (9.12%) ASP.NET Core
15 26 (8.47%) REST
16 23 (7.49%) CSS3
17 19 (6.19%) LINQ
18 14 (4.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.54%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.89%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.23%) AI Agents
5 9 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.28%) Digital TV
7 7 (2.28%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.28%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.98%) Derivative
10 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.65%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.65%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.93%) Windows
2 8 (2.61%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (50.49%) Agile
2 137 (44.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 124 (40.39%) Microservices
4 111 (36.16%) CI/CD
5 94 (30.62%) DevOps
6 83 (27.04%) Software Engineering
7 78 (25.41%) MVC
8 59 (19.22%) Clean Code
9 52 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (16.61%) Scrum
11 50 (16.29%) TDD
12 49 (15.96%) Containerisation
13 47 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (11.40%) Mentoring
15 34 (11.07%) SDLC
16 31 (10.10%) BDD
16 31 (10.10%) Kanban
17 29 (9.45%) Unit Testing
18 27 (8.79%) AI
19 25 (8.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 275 (89.58%) C#
2 126 (41.04%) JavaScript
3 125 (40.72%) SQL
4 75 (24.43%) TypeScript
5 35 (11.40%) Python
6 13 (4.23%) Rust
7 7 (2.28%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.95%) Go
8 6 (1.95%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.63%) Java
10 4 (1.30%) VB.NET
11 3 (0.98%) Erlang
11 3 (0.98%) PHP
12 2 (0.65%) Bicep
12 2 (0.65%) XAML
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (12.05%) Degree
2 17 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.61%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.28%) SC Cleared
5 6 (1.95%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.54%) QA
2 12 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.28%) WCAG
4 4 (1.30%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (24.10%) Docker
2 7 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (14.01%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.49%) Terraform
3 2 (0.65%) Grafana
Vendors
1 107 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.28%) Facebook
2 7 (2.28%) VMware
2 7 (2.28%) YouTube
3 4 (1.30%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.30%) Google
4 3 (0.98%) Databricks
4 3 (0.98%) Oracle
5 2 (0.65%) New Relic
5 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.33%) IBM
6 1 (0.33%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.33%) IONA
6 1 (0.33%) Okta
6 1 (0.33%) SAP
6 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.33%) Xamarin